PY2 - Rosenhan (1973)

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  • Created on: 28-05-12 19:57
Who believed that the medical model is no more sophisticated than believing in demonology?
Szasz
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Rosenhan aimed to investigate whether psychiatrists could distinguish between people who were genuinely mentally ill and those who were not. TRUE or FALSE?
True
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The pseudopatients were five women and three men. TRUE or FALSE
False
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How many different hospitals and in how many different states in the USA were used?
12 and 5
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The real patients regulary voiced their suspicions, How many made statements to the fake patients?
35 out of 118
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This failure may be because doctors have a strong bias towards a type 2 error - they are more inclined to call a healthy person sick than a sick person healthy. TRUE or FALSE?
True
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What did the behaviour of the staff in study 3 show?
The patients were depersonalised, because contact was avoided.
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Who concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are largely arbitrary and drive by a 'zeal to prescribe'?
Slater
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Does langwieler and Linden (1993) support, contradict or develop Rosenhan's research?
Develop
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In what year did Spitzer carry out his study?
1976
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Rosenhan aimed to investigate whether psychiatrists could distinguish between people who were genuinely mentally ill and those who were not. TRUE or FALSE?

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True

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The pseudopatients were five women and three men. TRUE or FALSE

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How many different hospitals and in how many different states in the USA were used?

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The real patients regulary voiced their suspicions, How many made statements to the fake patients?

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